Relation
The way one thing stands to another, such as cause, likeness, part and whole.
Works to read
- Introduction to Arithmetic by Nicomachus of Gerasa, c. AD 100 · Great Books
- Structural Anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1958 · Great Books
- A Logical Calculus of the Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts, 1943
- Fides et Ratio by John Paul II, 1998
Passages
From the texts
The knowledge of grammar is not relative to anything external, nor is the knowledge of music, but these, if relative at all, are relative only in virtue of their genera; thus grammar is said be the knowledge of something, not the grammar of something; similarly music is the knowledge of something, not the music of something.
— Aristotle, Categories
Of relative terms, those which are not contrary have no intermediate; the reason is that they are not in the same genus.
— Aristotle, Metaphysics
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